1st Anniversary!!!

Can't believe it...it's ONE year already! It seems only yesterday that we were dreaming and planning to move to Adelaide....and now we've been here for one year in this new country we call home now. It amazes me that this place which I've not been to previously is now clearly more home to me compared to the place I was born and grew-up in for the last thirty plus years. Of course I miss my family and friends there..........but this past year has clearly shown me and hubby and kids that Adelaide suits us much better!

13 September 2009 - at LCCT in Sepang waiting for our AirAsiaX flight to Melbourne. Sending us off were our dearest parents, siblings and their spouses and kids. It was a night full of emotions....and though we really didn't want to see anyone crying, we were nonetheless touched when my mother-in-law's eyes started to tear up as we said farewell and prepared to enter into the departure gate. It got me and hubby teary too....while Erica and Isaac just can't wait to board the plane then, couldn't quite understand why the adults were getting all emotional for! However, when Isaac saw the airplane he was shocked by the size of it and refused to board it.....it was such a struggle trying to carry a crying squirming 2-year old up the steps to the airplane!! The bigger struggle though were to try and get him to sleep!! He just napped for a couple of hours here and there.......and there we thought it would be better to take the night flight so that we don't have to entertain them for so many hours! If I have my ways it will be day flight in the future when we travel.......

14 September 2009 - 8 a.m. so near yet so far....that's how we felt on the morning when we touched down in Melbourne. So excited that we reached Australia, yayy!!! But...it is Adelaide that we need to get to and it was another 8 hours before our connecting flight from Melbourne to Adelaide :( ...And there wasn't much to do in the airport and kids were tired from the night flight....so it was napping time for the kids but it seems like an endless wait for me as I'm just not the type who can sleep anywhere........ 5 p.m. time to board the plane to Adelaide....7.30 p.m. Yippee!! We had landed in Adelaide Airport! "Hmm...wonder where is Cheah waiting for us?"...that was my thought and were we shocked to see him at the domestic arrival/departure lounge waiting for us! But our shock was nothing compared to his shock when he saw our luggages!! haha...seems like our friend had forgotten that we're not on holiday but migration!

For the next two weeks, it was a real hectic time but.......THANKS to our dear friend Alicia and her husband Cheah, we managed to get the things (at a bargain) we need to set up our new home in Glenelg.... THANKS to Ally's mom Auntie Joyce's babysitting, we were able to go around without having to bring along the kids or worrying about their food/general well-being....THANKS to Ally's kids Isabel and Gabriel, our kids got friends immediately after reaching Adelaide....and thanks to them we had good satisfying meals at their warm, cosy home on that cold cold spring!!

The Beginnings of Dreams

What better way to revive a sleeping blog (one put to sleep for such a long time that I wonder if the two co-creators of the blog remember it?) than to have a post about Beginnings of Dreams??

Dreams...those that you do while you sleep and those with glazy dreamy eyes in the bright of day...and for the dreams that I'd like to talk about, I've no idea which they were or maybe they were a mixture of both. These are dreams about starting anew in a foreign place, dreams about leaving a place you were born, raised and lived for more than 3 decades of your life, dreams about making a new country home....yes, I'm talking about migration. And yes, I know migration is as old as people are alive on this earth but amazingly, it was something that came as quite surprising for people who knew me and that includes not just friends and family but my partner! When I first told Eric that I had this dream to migrate and later it became more than just a wish, it became a need, he was kinda shocked. He knew that I would love to travel to lots of places but to move away from Malaysia? And what is more shocking is at that time when I broach this subject with him, I've never even been to the country I said I would love to live in....AUSTRALIA! Would you believe that?! Okay, even I couldn't fathom when and why I set my mind on Australia.........

Was I glad that we talked about this subject before he got this job with Termguard....It just seems that God has an awesome way of answering prayers but He loves to do it in His time (unfortunately that's one lesson I have the most difficulty learning!). It was God's blessing and timing that Eric got a job with Australian bosses and it was with this job that he brought us to Brisbane and Gold Coast for a holiday in 2006....and let me just say, I definitely LOVE it in Australia though it was very little that I got the chance to see. What can I say? I was met with fresh air immediately after landing and then it was just the safety and security I felt. I was perfectly happy with getting around the city with my then 2.5 years old daughter by myself as I felt safe (Eric had a conference to attend). It just made my decision stronger that I would love to live in Australia...and Thank God that Eric felt the same way the more he travels and things happening back home certainly helps! So we have now migrated to Adelaide since September 2009 and that's the Beginning of Dreams coming true!!

Revival? Hope so.....

I am so bad when it came to blogging. Started this blog in 2008...2008 mind you! My God and I only had 4 miserable posts. Have always said that I'll blog about this and that especially happenings in my kids' life but as always, LAZINESS reigns supreme....sigh!!

OK, enough of self-bashing...it's time to make amends and try to revive this blog.